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Main definitions of barrow in English

barrow1

noun

‘Cory hastily drained the bottle, recapped it and laid it in the barrow, then seized the handles.’

‘The children built their own BMX course anyway, on waste ground where it harmed nobody, erecting jumps with barrows and spades.’

‘She gathered two stacks of hay into a wheelbarrow and pushed the barrow to the stall that was vacant.’

‘Ireland's popular gardener Gerry Daly dispensed barrows and pots full of helpful information for all types of gardens in a varied and interesting talk in Abbeyleix, Manor Hotel on Thursday last March 23.’

‘He took a short cut across the fields to save 200 yards but had to lift the barrow and its contents over 11 stiles.’

‘We diligently found fallen trees and branches, cut them into logs and wheeled them up the hill in the barrow to the hostel.’

‘A gardener's wheelbarrow parked outside the Waterlily House had an old Victoria Lily leaf sitting in it (taking up most of the barrow, folded over twice).’

‘Hundreds of navigators, ‘navvies,’ were employed to dig the canals with only spades, picks, barrows and horse and cart.’

‘The Croft garden doesn't have many large trees from which we can gather more than a barrow or two of leaves, but of those we do have - rowan and Norway maple - put on a colourful show before leaf-fall.’

‘Now Dennis has turned his dream into reality, he believes he is about to cash in on a small fortune from other builders who, like him, are tired of struggling with their barrows.’

‘When you get to the last trench, fill it with the soil from the barrow.’

‘Wheeling barrow loads of cement certainly tickles the old palate as I discovered in one previous existence.’

‘I'm pretty sceptical about this system as the dustbin tends to rock forwards and backwards in the barrow splashing everywhere.’

‘The rink will literally be smashed up, the ice wheeled out in barrows and deposited in an environmentally friendly fashion.’

‘Little Brother came down the path, wheeling his barrow.’

‘I suspect it's for harvesting turnips - slice underneath, stab with the hook and throw in the barrow - but whatever, it's an vintage piece of kit.’

1.1A luggage trolley.

‘He said: ‘We thought it was a bike at first, but it turned out to be an old barrow.’’

‘Luggage barrows, guards with whistles and platform seats were gliding past the window on roller-skates.’

‘I only half worked that day, keeping an eye out for A - 6, making sure I didn't have to cart the barrow to the stair chamber today.’